Shrine of Bayazid Bostami

The Shrine of Bayazid Bostami is an altar in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Bayazid Bostami was an acclaimed Persian Sufi conceived in Bostam, Iran. Its holy place territory as an intricate comprises of a tomb encompassed by a block structure alongside an old mosque and a huge lake. There is no noteworthy authentic proof about Bostami's visit and tomb here. The entire complex is situated on a hillock of Nasirabad, viewed as a sacred place and draws in countless and travelers every day.

History:The tomb and the stone coffin its homes were initially found in 1831, and at the time were encased by a divider with defensive columns, that have since been supplanted by a more present day structure. At the foot of the tomb slope, there is an old three-domed mosque, which is accepted to date from the season of the Mughal sovereign, Aurangzeb (1658– 1707). The inside of the mosque is meagerly improved, while the mihrab on the qibla divider (demonstrating the bearing of Mecca) has an indistinguishable projection on its contrary side.

Myths:Despite the fact that the holy place is accepted to be Bostami's tomb as indicated by nearby convention, there is no huge verifiable proof about Bostami's visit to this piece of Bangladesh. It is believed that this tomb was credited to him as a jawab or impersonation. As indicated by Hamidullah Khan (a student of history of nineteenth-century Chittagong), Muslim faqirs and vagabonds of the time used to come to Chittagong to sit down on slope tops encompassed by jungles. 

A few people trust that Bostami in certainty visited this piece of the world amid his lifetime. As indicated by legend, amid his arrival nearby adherents requesting that he remain in Chittagong. Overpowered by their affection and commitment, Bostami penetrated his fifth (little) finger, enabled a couple of drops of blood to tumble to the ground, and allowed his adherents to manufacture a sanctum there on his name. 

In spite of the fact that there is no true authentic record about Bostami's visit to Chittagong, some eighteenth century Bengali artists recalled a Shah Sultan of Nasirabad in their lyrics.

Bostami Turatle:Before the tomb, there is a vast lake that houses countless delicate shelled turtles known as Bostami Turtle or Bostami Kachim (privately called Mazari) which are an exceptionally uncommon and basically imperiled species. Legends guarantee that these turtles are the descendents of wickedness spirits that acquired the fierceness of the famous holy person, Bayazid Bostami, while he was visiting the region. It is trusted that the malevolent spirits were then changed into turtles as a discipline and are bound to spend time everlasting in this pool. At present, the hallowed place's overseers – the Mazar Committee – ensure the turtle populace yet won't enable examples to be taken any longer, paying little mind to whether they would be executed or reintroduced into nature. 

Deductively, the dark delicate shelled turtle or Bostami Turtle (Aspideretes Nigricans, now and again put in family Nilssonia) is a types of freshwater turtle found in India (Assam) and Bangladesh (Chittagong). They have been for quite some time accepted to be innate variations of the Ganges delicate shelled turtle (A. gangeticus or N. gangeticus) or the Peacock Soft-shelled Turtle (A. hurum or N. hurum). While it is a nearby relative of the last mentioned, it is a particular animal types. Starting at 2002, the IUCN characterized the species as Extinct in the Wild.